Today we are going to take a posture of peace by receiving God's love for us.
Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.
Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.
Okay, well love is in the air. We just recently celebrated Valentine's Day
and I felt like the Lord over the weekend brought me back to this very profound,
mind-blowing truth that's so simple I think we might miss it sometimes.
So I want to read a few scriptures over you first. In John chapter 3 verse 16,
you may be familiar with this scripture, it says,
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life. And then I want to take you over to Romans chapter 5
in verse 8, it says this, it says, But God demonstrates his own love for us in this,
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. And then the last scripture I want to read
is in first John chapter 4 verse 9 where it says, This is how God showed his love among us.
He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him.
Okay, so here's the truth that the Lord pricked my heart with this weekend.
You are the focus of God's love. I don't want you to miss it, so I'm going to say it again
so it can sink in. You, yes you, are the focus of God's love. If you have been told or taught
that you are the focus of God's wrath, or his judgment, or his disappointment,
or that you are the object of his regret, you have been lied to because you are the focus
of God's love. You are the focus of his affection. You know, he created us humans not to be slaves,
but to be his children. He wanted family, so he made us. And he created this world we live in
not to be a prison, but to be a paradise in which he could lavish his love and affection on us
and have a real authentic relationship with us. And back in Genesis when all of that was
threatened by a deception of our enemy Satan, our savior Jesus gave himself to re-establish
this truth in our hearts by demonstrating with his very life that God is love, and we are the
focus of his love. So this is what I want to encourage you with today. Don't let the enemy's
deception strip away this truth from you again. It's already been stolen from humanity once,
and it's been re-established, and it's for us to remain in. We need to remain in this truth. We
need to receive God's love every day. You are the focus of God's love. Don't be tempted to live
under anything less than that. Don't be tempted to believe his love is for everyone else but you.
I want to encourage you to receive his love for you today by living exclusively in this truth.